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Re:Ask HN: I shut down my company, now I need a job by Clubber on Monday June 20, 2022 @10:55AM (#31811094)
Last I checked, the US has the most people incarcerated in the entire world, both by per capita and total incarcerated population. The land of the free...

Yup, still accurate:

https://worldpopulationreview.com/country-rankings/incarcera...

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Re:Ask HN: I shut down my company, now I need a job by RBBronson123 on Monday June 20, 2022 @11:00AM (#31811155)
While the US has approximately 5% of the world's population, it has more than 25% of the incarcerated population.
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Re:Ask HN: I shut down my company, now I need a job by missedthecue on Monday June 20, 2022 @11:14AM (#31811338)
Lots of places around the world under-incarcerate their criminals, sadly. India has 70 rapes per day, and a conviction rate of just 30%. Sub-Saharan Africa is even worse.
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Re:Ask HN: I shut down my company, now I need a job by Clubber on Monday June 20, 2022 @11:44AM (#31811697)
Just to how much the US is incarcerating, the difference between India's incarcerated the US incarcerated is 1,590,200. Assuming 70 rapes per day with 70% (49 per day) not convicted, it would take 32,453 days (approx 88 years) at 100% conviction rate to match the US's current incarceration rate.
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Re:Ask HN: I shut down my company, now I need a job by missedthecue on Monday June 20, 2022 @11:52AM (#31811805)
Of course, rapes aren't the only crime that goes unpunished in certain parts of the world. Half of my family is from the African country of Liberia. Google tells me their incarceration rate is 1/10th of the US.

I don't know what to tell you if you think the crime rate there is 1/10 of the US.

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Re:Ask HN: I shut down my company, now I need a job by Clubber on Monday June 20, 2022 @01:57PM (#31813380)
>I don't know what to tell you if you think the crime rate there is 1/10 of the US.

From what I understand it's not so much the amount of crime, but the duration of the punishment that causes the US problem.

Most justice-involved people in the U.S. are not accused of serious crimes; more often, they are charged with misdemeanors or non-criminal violations. Yet even low-level offenses, like technical violations of probation and parole, can lead to incarceration and other serious consequences.

https://www.prisonpolicy.org/reports/pie2022.html

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Re:Ask HN: I shut down my company, now I need a job by jen20 on Monday June 20, 2022 @12:31PM (#31812318)
I would be truly amazed if there weren't 70 rapes per day in some individual states, let alone the US at large. I'd also be surprised if there were only 70 per day in India. Where did you find this number?
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Re:Ask HN: I shut down my company, now I need a job by sph on Monday June 20, 2022 @11:27AM (#31811503)
Is that an attempt to justify the mind boggling incarceration rate in the US?
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Re:Ask HN: I shut down my company, now I need a job by missedthecue on Monday June 20, 2022 @11:52AM (#31811802)
hmm not really. It's more pointing out a good reason for the global disparity. It's a simple statistical thought process... another example is that the US is also heavily overrepresented in the number of LGBT people, because many other countries, particularly high-population countries repress that.

If you don't compare all-else being equal, you're going to have other factors playing into the resulting figure.

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